Former
Premier, Steve Bracks,
personally announced his plans
for the Kew Cottages 27
hectare Development on 4 May
2001.

However, after that Bracks
appears to have forgotten his
Kew Cottages rhetoric and the
promises he made to
intellectually disabled
Victorians.

Instead of ensuring his
promises were delivered to the
disabled, Bracks left that to
others - principally to Major
Projects Victoria, and to his
Private Partner, the
'colourful Sydney billionaire'
Lang Walker..

"The site has a sordid history
of broken promises, excessive
secrecy and utterly
inappropriate political
donations by Walker, who even
sent Graham Richardson down
from Sydney to try and bang a
few Labor heads together"

The controversial development
reflected badly on Bracks
ability to manage Major
Projects as a whole.

The question now is what has
Daniel Andrews learnt from
Bracks lack of attention to
detail, and Bracks
over-reliance on Major
Projects Victoria ?

The Andrews Government
Contract with Walker is due to
expire in a few months time on
27 Oct 2016, all the houses
planned for Main Drive Kew
Housing Estate have now been
completed, and it is time for
Daniel Andrews to tell Walker
to go away.

The Premier's personal
intervention is necessary
because unfortunately,
Walker is not showing any
signs of wanting to go
quietly.

Indeed as reported in the
Progress Leader (23/2)
Walker has now launched an
extraordinary '11th
hour' attack on the competency
of the Victorian Heritage
Council.

Last year Walker was refused
heritage approval to build
blocks of high-rise apartments
on the parkland next to Main
Drive and Willsmere.

As a consequence Walker
appealed to the Heritage
Council. The Council appointed
a Panel to hear Walker's
Appeal. Public Hearings
commenced, and were due to
resume in February. However,
Walker now claims that it
isn't getting a fair hearing.
Walker have applied for
the Heritage Council to be
reconstituted, and for the
whole Appeal process to be
re-started.

The day after the Leader broke
this story, a Public Meeting
at the Kew Civic Centre
called on the Andrews
Government "to direct Walker
Corporation to withdraw its
application for the Heritage
Council to be reconstituted."

President of the Kew Cottages
Coalition, Brian. Walsh said,
" Its time for Daniel Andrews
to learn from Steve Bracks big
mistake at Kew Cottages. It's
time for the Premier to pull
Major Projects Victoria into
line, and tell Walker that
their contract will not be
extended, and that their
application for the Heritage
Council to be reconstituted is
totally out of order, and does
not have his Government's
support."

... Major Projects in Victoria
are in a mess, and the mess
looks like it is getting
bigger, much bigger...

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